| Topic: | Re:Re:CrossRail and Station Access | |
| Posted by: | Chris Veasey | |
| Date/Time: | 02/10/09 10:35:00 |
| By no means all our political and administrative masters are young - the unresponsive attitudes are the same regardless of age. And if you regard the word 'humiliating' as inherently 'agressive' you must be a hypersensitive soul. Even if it was, as a Northerner it's my right (even duty?) to call a spade a flaming shovel. As regards the number and timing of my posts, as an independent professional consultant based in a home office, working any hours required any day and time of week (and paid on the basis of actual time spent on jobs, or for a fixed lump sum fee), I have no compunction at taking relatively short bits of time out of the day/night to respond to postings of interest and concern when alerted to them by my email system. I regard that as a much more useful and rewarding use of time than walking to/from or standing at a bus stop, or sitting (if lucky) or standing (if not) in a slow and hideously uncomfortable bus for several times lonmger than I could drive it and park. If your comment was provoked by the long literary passage, of course I didn't type that out, I copied and pasted it in a matter of seconds from an ocr scan done long ago as part of current private research into the life and work of that once-acclaimed but now (regrettably and deplorably) largely forgotten author. That endeavour, let me assure you, is INFINITELY more useful, enjoyable and possibly (in due course) nationally important than wasting time unnecessarily travelling by sub-bog standard bus services. May I suggest you print the passage out (surely you can afford the paper and toner from all those savings of petrol) and read it during some of your long bus waiting or travelling episodes? |